Bug#312255: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: X windows screen mangled (SIS) switching from kernel-image-2.4.27-i386 to 2.6.8

[Nathan Salwen <salwen.1@osu.edu>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386
Version: 2.6.8-13
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

I am running a PCchips K8 M871G motherboard with SiS 760GX Northbridge
and SiS964 Siuthbridge chips.  I have an LM1730 LCD monitor.  It worked
fine with kernel 2.4.27 but when I upgraded the kernel lines and trails
and then a whole lot of junk shjowed up on the screen.  One time it
hung.  I switched back and forth twice with similar results.

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 depends on:
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities
ii  initrd-tools                  0.1.79     tools to create initrd image for p
ii  module-init-tools             3.2-pre1-2 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

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